It's LEGO not LEGOS (44/90)

I was studying for my CS104 exam today, but I couldn't keep myself concentrated for very long. I kept drifting off into facebook/twitter. I know. I know, it's a stupid cliche of a habit and I've recently become one of those people. But whatever. Something good came out of it.

During one of my "breaks," I decided to log onto Flickr, which is this awesome photo sharing website by the way, to look at the pictures other people have posted with "LEGO" as their tag. Well, I found a few contributors that I really liked and added them as one of my contacts on Flickr. I was kind of amazed how easily I was able to find people who were so interested in LEGO. I mean, my Social Media professor told me to check out twitter and find people there who tweet about LEGO, but I couldn't find a single person who was a real LEGO maniac. Those people mostly just tweeted about some random thing that they did and the LEGO bricks involved were secondary.

Well, anyways, after adding some people as contacts on Flickr, I decided to send two of them messages asking them a few questions and giving them a few compliments on their works. Both of them sent messages back and I learned that they both worked for LEGO companies. At first, I was a little disappointed because I was aiming for more amateurish LEGO designers, but then I thought "Wait, this is amazing! Who am I kidding?" The one who sent me a more in depth message goes by the name of Bricktrix and he linked me to an interview he had with the people who work at The Brothers Brick, which is a website that blogs about Lego designs and news.

In the interview, he revealed that his name was Carl Greatrix (age 41) and that he worked for the TT Games Lego model designer for the official Lego digital games. He talked about being an AFOL which stands for Adult Fan Of Lego and how he got the job at TT Games by seeing an ad on TBB. He also talked about his typical work schedule, the special requirements companies look for, and the process he goes through to create this models for each game. Just recently, he started posting pictures of the lego models he created for the LEGO Indiana Jones 2 video game.

I'm planning on messaging him tomorrow as I need to think carefully about what I want to say to this person.

Here's the interview, btw. (For my reference)

http://www.brothers-brick.com/2009/12/21/interview-with-carl-greatrix/